Absolute Gadget

There's no easy way to say this, but a Japanese company have developed a peripheral designed to be attached to your personal area while playing a rather stimulating, err, video game for grown-ups.

The unfortunately-named Overflow are working on a new PC game, Cross Dreams, and have produced a machine called a SOM (we neither know nor wish to know if this stands for anything) that attaches to your USB port, and then moves in real time to the corresponding on-screen motions in the game's, er, "climax scenes". As the website puts it, "Install SOM and experience a next-gen reality!" And yes, there is a women's version of the device too. As well as a more "realistic" version where the, um, top portion is replaced with a clenched plastic hand.

According to the manufacturer, the SOM employs a material called septon, which is used in medical devices. That's all right, then.

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